New Brunswick, Canada: Grade 8 students Holly Ayles and Emily Baxter are national winners in the recent
International Statistical Literacy Poster Competition.
Their poster will go to international level in Dublin Ireland later in August.

SQM user Henk Spoelstra of Lumineux Consult
has set up a network of SQM-LE units to monitor sky brightness in the Netherlands. You can view his nomograph of light pollution factor
and readings plot here.

Clear Sky Detection experiment
Here is an experiment to try to identify a clear sky using the SQM-LE/LU by observing the fluctuations in light level caused by clouds.
Details here.

A Survey of Light Pollution in Hong Kong.
Researchers at the Department of Physics of The University of Hong Kong completed their light pollution survey and collected near 2,000
night sky brightness data sets from SQMs at more than 220 observation sites
around Hong Kong during the past 15 months.
Full report here.

GLOBE at Night: Shed Light on Light Pollution!
Podcast.
Connie Walker of the NOAO discusses the Globe at Night project as part of the 365 days of astronomy during the Year of Astronomy.

Knightware, makers of "Deep-Sky Planner", have released
SQM Reader Pro
for Windows and the SQM-LE. This low-cost package adds graphing, statistical
calculations, extended data storage and transmission capabilities to the
basic feature set of existing "SQM Reader" software.

Galician Night Sky Brightness Monitoring Network, using 14 SQM-LR installed at several
of its automated weather stations. Real-time and historic data are
freely available at MeteoGalicia.
More info here.